· Private foundation
Terrell Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $12,000 |
| ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING | $7,500 |
| STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $4,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| MADISON COUNTY COMMUNITY CONNECTION | $3,500 |
| MADISON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENT | $2,000 |
| CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| ADVENTURE BAGS | $1,500 |
| THE ARK | $1,000 |
| DOWNTOWN ACADEMY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AAAthens Academy Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $89k · revenue +12%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $45k · revenue +82%
- ACATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $12k
- SBSTATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GAone grant, 2017 · $10k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHRUCHone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
Cine enriches the quality of life in Athens, GA and the surrounding region by presenting film and arts that inspire, educate and sustainably build community.
Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
Acfb charitable investments, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
Ahpc was formed to acquire property and make it available exclusively to 501(c)3 organizations assisting in the plight of the homeless in the athens, ga area. the homeless providers will include local shelters, food banks, and health…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…
The athenian school is a co-educational, independent, not-for-profit school serving grades 6 through 12. the athenian school prepares students for the rigorous expectations of college and for a life of purpose and personal fulfillment.…
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
Atlanta legal aid provides legal services to the elderly and indigent citizens of the metropolitan atlanta area.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To add distinctive and sustainable value to our students as well as greece, american education, hellenic heritage, and the global community through transformative teaching, scholarship, and service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Athens Area Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Extra Special People Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Athens Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATHENS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE BAGS INC ↗
- Who funds Extra Special People Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · The Alice and Noah N Langdale Jr Foundation Inc · The Winthrop Foundation of Athens G · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · Thomas McKey Tillman Foundation Inc · The Elizabeth Price Dolvin Foundation Tr · Lonnie L Michael Foundation · Walton Electric Trust Inc · Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Terrell Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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